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In this episode, Crystal and Anthony share the three most profitable and flexible side hustles for homeschooling moms: the Teaching Economy, the Service Economy, and the Product Economy.

You’ll learn how to take the same skills you already use in homeschooling—research, planning, consistency, and pivoting—and apply them directly to business opportunities that create income without draining your time or energy.

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Are you dabbling in one or two or maybe

even three different side hustles, and

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you wanna figure out which way to go

to really grow your income and simplify

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your life so you can homeschool and

make good money in a flexible way that

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feels like a blessing and not a curse.

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Well, in today's episode that

we're calling three homeschool

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Mom side Hustle Ideas.

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That's what we're gonna talk about.

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We're going to discuss three of the top

business models and opportunities that you

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have to put serious cash in your pocket

without a lot of stress and without a lot

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of headaches and lean, mean, moneymaking

ideas that we have utilized and that

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we are helping other people utilize

that are high profit and low stress.

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Let's get started.

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Intro: A fast growing number

of parents are starting their

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homeschooling journey while others

have been homeschooling for years.

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All of these parents are asking one big

question, how can I afford to homeschool?

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We are here to answer that

important question once and for all.

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Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.

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And I'm Anthony Obby.

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We've been homeschooling our five

kids for 13 years and we funded it.

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Through our online consulting business

that we've been running for over 17

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years now, we're combining Crystal's

financial coaching expertise with my

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digital marketing background where I help

entrepreneurs launch and sell online.

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We're here to help fellow homeschooling

parents self-fund their homeschool

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journey and create lifestyle businesses.

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For financial freedom without a nine to

five job, are you ready to start living

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life on your own terms and make your

homeschooling experience a lot more fun?

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Well then sit back, crank up

the volume, and enjoy this

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episode of Homeschool Money.

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Welcome to the show, crystal

Obie here, Anthony Obie.

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Here in this episode of Homeschool Money,

we're gonna talk about some very relevant

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ways that we and other real homeschool

parents, moms and dads, are making money.

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In this episode in particular, we're

gonna talk about how you can start

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monetizing your homeschool experience.

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Now the reason why this conversation

is so important to every homeschooling

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parent across the country is

because homeschooling families, we

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feel like sacrifice a lot to take

the education of their children.

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In homeschooling parents are

usually very intentional parents.

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Who take their roles

as homeschool parents?

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Seriously.

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We personally feel like parenting

our children well and homeschooling

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them is a calling from God.

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Many parents don't know how to take

their skills and gifts that they use

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every single day while homeschooling

to create an income in the marketplace.

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And so that's why we want to talk

about this topic because we want to.

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Help you with that mind mindset shift,

and we want to encourage you to see the

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opportunities that could be lying in your

own backyard and easy for you to implement

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with just a little bit of encouragement.

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Yeah, the big thing that we

always see is that there's two

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things that hold people back.

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One is their confidence in

homeschooling their kids.

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So whenever they find out about

the opportunity to homeschool,

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they don't know if they can do it.

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So they spend a lot of

time and a lot of energy.

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Trying to figure out if they're

qualified to even be able to be

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their child's, you know, educator.

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And so we always end up having

to work with people like that.

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But then also the homeschool money

conversation is after they've realized

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that they, yes, they can be the educator.

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They wanna know how they can afford

to pay for it, and then they're

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not confident in how to do that.

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And.

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What we've seen is that whenever they

understand that their, in, that their

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experience as a homeschool parent can

actually transfer over and they can

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actually get that dual credit just like

we get for college and high school.

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They can get dual credit for

homeschooling and doing a business.

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And so some of the skills that

you use as a homeschooling parent.

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They can help you start, launch and

grow a successful business or like

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laying right there at your feet.

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Yeah, you're right.

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So it's like crystal the, the same

skills that you're utilizing to

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think through and plan and execute

on homeschooling your children.

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Well, those are the same skills.

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That it takes to start a good,

a solid business for yourself?

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Yeah.

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So like the first skill is research.

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Like you research to come

up with a business idea.

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And we know in homeschooling

you have to research all the

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homeschool options and then choose

the one, the one that will fit.

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And so when people come to us and talk

about how am I gonna make an income,

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what business should I choose, we go

through the same type of process you

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would go through and picking out a

curriculum, you know, for your child.

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Yeah.

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The, the first step to

building your business.

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Is researching researching product

sourcing the right product,

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sourcing the the right vendors

for every step of the lifecycle.

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Of your business.

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And so you, you're right that, that,

that that skill of research for

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homeschool is the same skill that

you'll, the same muscle that you're

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gonna exercise in order to plan and

re research all of the steps in the

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process of executing on your business.

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Yeah.

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And the next skill is.

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Planning for business success.

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I mean, there's so many different

things you need to plan when

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you're gonna operate a business.

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You're gonna plan, you know, the,

of, of course the financials.

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You know, you're gonna plan, you know,

the schedules, you're gonna plan the

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team, you're gonna plan just all the,

you know, the promotions and marketing.

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I mean, just, there's so much

planning that goes into being.

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A successful business.

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And of course when you're

homeschooling, you plan the school

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year like each year one at a time.

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But you also plan from like birth

all the way through college.

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That's right.

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I mean, we are doing

some serious forecasting.

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We're at, when you have a

baby, you're sitting here like.

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You know, what, what, what program

are we gonna do for, you know, their

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young years, their middle years, their

upper years, and how is this gonna

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play out into their, the marketplace?

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We are the, like, having those

conversations all the time.

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Yeah.

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I, I know that you know, you and I have

been having those conversations and I'm

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sure some other homeschooling parents.

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Have been having those

conversations that long.

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It's probably not probably not all.

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But we're certainly long-term thinkers

and so before we even had our kids,

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we knew and made that decision.

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You know, you knew that you wanted to

homeschool since, you know, you read that

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that pa that that story, that article.

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In a magazine, Tom

Magazine in high school.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And so whenever we first met you, you

already knew you wanted to homeschool.

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Yeah.

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So we were planning before we had kids.

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To homeschool, and then we have the kids,

we're planning their education based

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on where we want them to be able to end

up for the outcomes at 18 years old.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so homeschooling just requires

a lot of planning and that is

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always a great skill to have

whenever you're running a business.

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That's right.

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And so the next skill is the

ability to be able to start

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even when you don't feel ready.

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I mean, just classic entrepreneurship.

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I mean, you have to start teaching

with what you have and pull in new

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resources on a continual basis.

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I mean, what homeschool family actually

feels a hundred percent ready, because as

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soon as you think you're ready, there's

new curriculums, there's new programs.

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There's just so many different variables.

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Variables that change in life to

where you have to continually.

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Just keep going.

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'cause the school year

is gonna keep going.

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You know, the kids are getting older.

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You, you don't get five years to plan.

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That's right.

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The kids are getting older by the day and

you need to go ahead and make a decision.

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And so you're constantly having

to just keep going, start and just

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find the strength that you have to

be able to do what you need to do.

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That's right.

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We can't be paralyzed

by paralysis analysis.

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Exactly.

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You know, at, at some point.

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And that's hard, especially

for perfectionist, right.

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To, to stop, you know creating

idealistic, you know castles in the sky.

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And, and, and actually just get in the

game and, and get, get your hands dirty.

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That's what happens with

so many entrepreneurs.

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That's right.

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I mean, they wanna get in

business, but you know, they

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just gotta pull the trigger.

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Exactly.

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And, and learn, you know,

while you're on the job.

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Right.

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E exactly.

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And so.

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If you have actually stepped out

and started homeschooling, then you

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have obviously some sort of ideal in

your, in your mind of like how you

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want your children to grow up, how

you want parents, how you, you know,

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what you want to be as a parent and

how you want to shape your children's

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childhood and their worldview and, you

know, all of those types of things.

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And so you have this picture

of what you want for them.

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As they grow.

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And you know, that's but you

realize that it's not perfect.

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You know, you're not a perfect parent.

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Your children aren't perfect.

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Homeschooling schedules

and days are not perfect.

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Our business mentor always said

and taught success is messy.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so, so is homeschooling,

so is parenting.

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And guess what?

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So is business.

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And so if you're able to

jump in there and homeschool.

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Guess what?

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You can do the same thing in business.

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Jump out there, be willing to make

your plan, your perfect plan on

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paper, but then get off the fence,

jump in the game and get going,

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and you can figure out everything.

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That's right.

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Everything is figureoutable, right?

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Now, back to the show.

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The next thing is pivoting.

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I mean, how many entrepreneurs

haven't heard that word?

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You know, I mean, you need to give, you

know, sear that in your brain, you know?

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That's right.

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Everyone has bought curriculum

as a homeschool parent.

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And or signed up for classes that

didn't work out or, you know,

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just didn't meet the expectations.

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Not that that necessarily, that they were

not good, but just maybe life changed or

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situations changed or just the curriculum

didn't end up being what you expected.

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And so you have to just reevaluate

and change course while still staying

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on track with the educational goals.

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So you have to like, get rid

of the curriculum, find a new

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curriculum, and then implement it

so that your kids stay on track.

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I mean, you know, I'm telling you,

if you are not an entrepreneur

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to entrepreneur, when you start

homeschooling, it will turn you into one.

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That's right.

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'cause of all these skills, I mean,

you see how they're just stacking up?

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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Absolutely.

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To be a homeschooling.

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Parent that, that for a lot of

people, I feel like that are

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coming into homeschooling now,

it's, it's a pivot situation.

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It is, yeah.

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They maybe planned on, you know,

this school system or whatever,

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private schooling or public schooling

or whatever but then pull their

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kids out because of this or that.

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Now, of course, we, you know,

planned it from from the

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beginning, many, many years ago.

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But now you have all these different

factors and everything, the

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reasons that, that bring about the

reasons why people want to opt for

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homeschooling instead of continuing on.

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With public schooling.

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And so for many parents today,

that is a, a classic pivot.

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Yeah.

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And expand with their careers as well.

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Yeah.

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Because with people like us

who plan for it, you know.

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A lot of the parents coming in, now

they're having to pivot their careers

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or having to, you know, that's right.

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It's not just, you know,

a good thing to do.

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It's, it's the only way That's right.

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To even be able to homeschool so well, and

that's what homeschool money is here for.

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Exactly.

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That's exactly why we our, that's

exactly why we're, we created this show.

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Exactly.

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That's to help everyone think

through that transition.

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Of going possibly from a, a two

income household to possibly

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a one income household because

you are choosing to homeschool.

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And so that doesn't have to remain

the case with homeschool money.

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We are here to help you pivot, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And, and not eliminate your income

and, and have that lifelong sacrifice.

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But instead to pivot

your skills into a new.

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Venture that could likely be more

profitable and less stressful

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and more flexible so you can

homeschool and make money.

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That's what homeschool money's all about.

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Yeah, I love that because the

next skill is evaluating ROI.

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So we know ROI is return on investment.

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Mm-hmm.

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And one of people's best return on

investments is listening to this show

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because we're the only place where people

are having this conversation directly.

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And so there are a ton, a ton of options.

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You know, for homeschooling.

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So you have to be good

at investing wisely.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so whenever, there's a lot

of different classes you can take

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and you know, just places that you

can go and things that you can do.

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You're constantly making decisions

on what to spend my time on,

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what to spend my money on.

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And of course you're doing

that all the time in business.

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So yet another skill right there.

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That's right.

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And what's our next skill, crystal?

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So the next skill is basically like

a compilation of just character

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traits that are really great for

entrepreneurs and homeschooling families.

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And so that's focus,

discipline, consistency, all

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those kinds of things, right?

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You know, all these just character traits

that in order to be a great intentional

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homeschool family that is running well,

it's the same skills that's gonna make

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you a good, successful business owner.

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And so staying focused.

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Being disciplined, being consistent

with your, what you need to do.

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You know, homeschooling is a lifestyle,

so there's never a day that is wasted.

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There's never a day that's

wasted in your business.

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And so the more great systems, processes,

and resources you implement, the

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more capacity you have for learning.

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I mean, we see it all the time.

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The more organized we are, the

more we can do in a day, the more

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resources we get that are very helpful.

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The more we're able to handle and just

the more organized we are, the better

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we're able to handle things that change.

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So like if there's some unexpected

event or something, if we're all

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organized and everybody's running, you

know, in a good, we're all in sync.

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Things work out better for

us and we can do a lot more.

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Especially having five kids, we

have to have things in order.

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It can't be chaotic otherwise, you

just can't get the basics done.

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And in a business, the more organized you

are, the more business you can handle.

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That's right.

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Oh, so the process of homeschooling

will make you a better business person.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And, you know we, we just talked about

it like, you know, we knew that we wanted

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to homeschool from day one when we met

in college and had that conversation

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about how many kids we wanted and

we were just dreaming and, you know,

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just, just talking and whatever about

our futures and what we wanted, didn't

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even know we were gonna be married.

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And you said that you wanted to homeschool

and you wanted five kids, and Oh wow.

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I want five kids.

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And, and you know, that whole

conversation, we've talked

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about that in earlier episodes.

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We knew over 23 years ago, long

before we even had children, that

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homeschooling was gonna be an

important role in our lives as parents

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because of the way that we wanted to.

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Raise our children.

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We knew that it would be a lot of

work sacrifice and that we would

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be counter-cultural in some ways,

but we built our lives so that we

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could live in that integrated way.

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We've been working from home and

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before it became a lot more popular.

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After COVID-19 happened.

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So we've been business owners and

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that one day we were gonna have our kids

and that we wanted to be able to be with

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them, that we wanted to be home together

so that we can both be there as parents

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so that they can have both of us there.

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Not just crystal you as the mom,

but also me as their dad so that

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I can play an important role

in their lives and be present.

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In the home with the kids.

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And so I've spent the last 17 years

as a digital marketing consultant,

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copywriter and growth marketer

to hundreds of small businesses

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around the country and the world.

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And that's one of the main ways we've

been able to make money and still.

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Be able to afford to homeschool and afford

that homeschooling lifestyle is, is that

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work that we've been doing, and in this

work we directly help startups and small

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small to mid-sized businesses increase

their leads, increase their sales,

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and build scalable, you know, powerful

sales systems and demand generating

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campaigns that bring in sales and profits.

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That work is what gives us so

much insight into what's working.

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And what doesn't work.

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And so the moneymaking opportunities

that we wanna discuss today are real.

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So we're gonna talk about real

business opportunities that

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work for homeschooling moms.

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And so moms are always wanting to know

exactly where to spend their time, which

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business to start, which one actually

lets them be at home, lets them be

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able to use their gifts and talents.

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And there's lots of

different opportunities.

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And like you were saying,

you know, we were.

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Whenever we were younger, we needed

to figure out how can we not only be

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self-employed, but how can we be at

home that's not just working from home

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like we talked about, but at home,

but at home, from home and at home.

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Different, two different things.

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Yeah, that's right.

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And so that's one thing I

love about having just so much

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experience in this industry.

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Is as we've seen everything grow and we've

just seen, you know, all the different

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things that look like opportunities

but may not be opportunities.

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And so that's why I like being able to

help people cut through the clutter.

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And so the first opportunity

is the teaching economy.

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And this is your specialty.

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You know, we specialize in helping

a lot of information marketers,

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people who publish, people who

write, coach speak, things like that.

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Just sharing their knowledge as

experts in the written word or the

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spoken word, or just some kind of.

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Information marketing.

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That's right.

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And so that has been an industry that

we've specialized in since day one.

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Tony Comm 1: Hey, friend, quick break.

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without relying on a nine to five

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job, you have to check this out.

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how to create consistent income.

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your kids and get the lifestyle freedom

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more time to invest into the people

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that matter the most, your children.

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This is the system that changed everything

for us, and it's changed everything

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for hundreds of other families too.

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class on demand and get our

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Don't wait.

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Your freedom starts right now.

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That's right.

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You know, a lot of, you know,

maybe coaches or whatever.

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Some, some coaches these days are

like digital marketing agencies.

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Will they just have experience

helping other folks or helping

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entrepreneurs who are trying to

sell or launch a digital course.

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But we were doing this stuff

way back when people were still.

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Shipping CDs and DVDs,

you know what I mean?

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Like we've been doing

this stuff a long time.

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Yeah.

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And I actually have a certification in

doing copywriting and launches and that

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type of thing, and building sales funnels.

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For information marketing

businesses, knowledge experts, people

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selling courses, people selling.

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Back then they were home study courses.

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Now everything is just

like a digital course.

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And so we selling masterminds and selling

group coaching programs, individual

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coaching programs and events and all

of those types of information products.

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And so yeah, that's definitely

an expertise and that.

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Who knew, like back when we were

working with companies doing that,

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dating back to 2007, who knew that

that particular industry would become

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what it has become today to where.

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There are so many people and it's like

one of the top business, one of the

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top industries or whatever on online

today is information and e-learning.

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Yeah.

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It's the e-learning industry.

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So basically if you have

any type of expertise yeah.

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You can package that expertise and share

it with people and get paid to do it.

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It's just, just as simple as that.

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Yeah.

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And so.

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A lot of people were lit.

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It was such an obscure

industry back in the day.

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But it, it is just amazing that

now that's become such a popular

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thing and just didn't know

that it was gonna be like that.

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But that's the thing, you know,

being a, a learner, you know,

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I've always loved to learn.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so whenever I was presented with

the idea of learning, you know, through

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cassette tapes, through, you know,

then DVDs and CDs, and then online.

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It made sense to me that

you can continue learning.

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Mm-hmm.

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But I remember getting pushback from

people back then and them saying, can

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you really learn through this internet?

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You know?

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Yeah.

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Well, it can, you learn watching

a documentary on television.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you're always learning.

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And so now.

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It being an industry of e-learning,

it just had to, people just

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had to wait for, you know, more

opportunities to see it work.

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But you're always learning.

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Yeah.

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And so I think learners out there are

some of the best people poised to be

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in the teaching economy because if

you learn, then you can easily see

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how other people can learn from you.

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And you probably just need the confidence.

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Yeah.

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Because like we know there's

like 52 different ways.

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That you can package your expertise.

442

Right?

443

Whereas many people, like we just

mentioned, you know, like the teaching

444

economy and you could do a course, but

there's, there's the tutoring, there's

445

curriculum creation, the online courses

you know, like you said, masterminds.

446

There's different ways.

447

That a teacher, a person who

has expertise, can share their

448

information, their knowledge,

their ex, their experience with

449

another person in charge for that.

450

And it's just making sure that

people understand that will

451

also keep people grounded.

452

Because I know we've always had

that, well, we don't wanna be a

453

guru, you know, type of thing.

454

Right.

455

But we see it as we want to just

help people by sharing what we know.

456

Yeah.

457

And when you do it like that,

it's not about, you know.

458

Just selling on the internet or something.

459

It's about an opportunity to share.

460

Kind of like how when we published our

first book, it wasn't about publishing.

461

It was about how can we

help more of our friends?

462

Yeah.

463

Yeah.

464

And and I and I, and I said earlier

that it's like crazy that it's

465

become such a, like the A number one.

466

Fastest growing industry is e-learning,

but it's not confusing why that is,

467

it is because the world has changed

so much with the rise of the internet.

468

It has changed the outlook of

people's careers who graduated

469

from traditional colleges.

470

Without jobs, with things shifting, and

now in the age of ai, entire industries

471

are, are shutting down and, and entire

fields are, are shutting down and

472

shifting really fast underneath the

feet of people coming into the economy.

473

And so traditional educational

institutions have not been able at all.

474

To begin to keep up with the, the fast

shifts in this economy, and that is

475

exactly why we were learning from home

476

Yeah, the only way to get the knowledge

on how to operate on the internet was

477

through masterminds, home study courses.

478

Direct coaching that there

was no system for it.

479

Right.

480

You know, and so now people

have that opportunity, but

481

it's always, it's been there.

482

Yeah.

483

You know, there's always been

like apprenticeships, you know?

484

Yeah.

485

And so that, that, that is the

reason why e-learning is growing

486

so fast, just because there

are more and more young people.

487

Who are becoming adults and

pouring into this economy.

488

And it is, things are moving so

fast that they are not prepared

489

for what they're coming into in

this economy that we live in.

490

I 'cause things are shifting so

fast and so the only way that

491

people can learn is to learn it from

people who are doing it real time.

492

It takes.

493

A lot in order and a lot of time

in order to get a new program new

494

information pushed through traditional

education channels it can take years.

495

And by that time it's completely

irre irrelevant, and it arrives

496

to students in those traditional

education settings dead on arrival.

497

Right?

498

And so.

499

When there are new things happening

in the economy, now you can jump on

500

YouTube or you can start a podcast

and you can write a book and you can

501

create a digital course today that's

relevant to people who have the need.

502

Of your solution today instead of of of

those people just going through trying to

503

go through traditional educational systems

with a four year degree or something

504

like that, to learn things that are gonna

be outdated by the time they graduate.

505

And so that creates your opportunity,

the fast shift in this economy

506

that is continuing to take place.

507

It is your opportunity to take advantage

and join the e-Learning revolution

508

and become a teacher, become a

coach, become a guide, and you don't

509

have to have it all figured out.

510

We've always heard one leader say,

you just need to be one step ahead

511

of the people that you are trying

to lead in order to do a great

512

job as a leader, and in order to

be able to galvanize an audience.

513

And students around your offer, and

I think that homeschool families

514

are already a step ahead of other

people because if they've become.

515

A homeschool family, they know that

you can learn in an unconventional

516

way and they understand the

rapid nature of online learning.

517

Right.

518

Because they're already doing that and

taking advantage of that for their kids.

519

That's right.

520

So let's go on to opportunity

number two, Chris.

521

That's the service economy.

522

And so we have a lot of clients that are

in this, and that will include people

523

like virtual assistants, bookkeeping,

social media for small businesses.

524

I mean, anybody that can offer a service

to someone can be in business today.

525

Yeah.

526

All you have to do is find somebody

with a need and say, I'll help.

527

Well, that's what we

528

Exactly.

529

And we've been doing it ever since,

and we're still doing it today.

530

You can make a six figure income

working at home, working remotely,

531

working anywhere you want to and

own your time and own your schedule.

532

If you learn a skill and are able

to offer that expertise and that

533

assistance remotely, and that's

what we like to recommend to people.

534

If you, if you're wanting to

make income like immediately,

535

you wanna start with a service.

536

Mm-hmm.

537

That's right.

538

The service is gonna get you as if,

as fast as you can come up with.

539

Your offer and just

identify a potential client.

540

You can be in business today.

541

That's right.

542

You don't have to create anything.

543

You don't have to know a ton of people.

544

You just have to find one person

that needs help and charge 'em

545

and then find another person.

546

That's right.

547

And, and it's so, it's so much easier

and I mean, it's pretty amazing to make.

548

Income selling a digi selling a course

or something like that, that's, we've

549

sold courses and that's one of the,

be, that's probably the, the best way

550

to make an income, selling a course,

selling a book, selling things like

551

that, information products, because

it's so profitable if you own it.

552

Like if you own it, like if we've

self-published our own books, and so

553

we own the books that we've published.

554

And so those book e each book sale

was, you know, profitable relative

555

to what a person who goes through

traditional publishing channel would

556

make per copy of, of their book sold.

557

And, but, but the thing is, is that you,

whenever to, in order to sell a course.

558

You have to either have an audience

that you've already been nurturing and

559

already who is warm and sort of hot, ready

for your digital chorus launch offer.

560

And if you don't have that and it, it can

take some time to build that, it can take

561

months to maybe a year to build that.

562

So if you've started a YouTube

channel or TikTok, or a podcast or

563

you've been growing a social media

presence and gaining some influence

564

and gaining some followership.

565

That is all good.

566

And if your audience is really

engaged, then it could be a prime

567

time for you to launch a course

of some sort and and quickly sell.

568

However, if you don't have any of that

stuff built up yet and you decide, Hey,

569

I want to get going in homeschooling.

570

Or Hey, I'm tired of sacrificing so

much and I want to start creating some

571

income, doing something and making

some money while still homeschooling.

572

Your best bet is going to be to

start with number two and, oh,

573

let me step back real quick.

574

All of this information that we're talking

about here is taken from step four of

575

our five step system in the homeschool.

576

Money makeover program.

577

So we have five steps in that system.

578

This is all taken straight

from step four, where we talk

579

about the top five moneymaking

opportunities for homeschooling

580

moms, dads homeschooling parents.

581

Okay, so but again, back

to the conversation.

582

So se service.

583

To start a service that you can offer done

for you is always going to sell easier.

584

Than than the teaching.

585

Than do it yourself.

586

Yeah, do it yourself.

587

Yeah.

588

DIY especially like if you're like

trying to work with entrepreneurs

589

or something like that, we've

always worked with entrepreneurs.

590

They want things done for

them, especially small business

591

owners with, with small teams.

592

They may not have a person.

593

Usually I come in a situations

where they don't have a person

594

on the team with my expertise.

595

It's them driving the business and every.

596

Everybody else on their team, you

know, is doing whatever they're

597

doing, maybe helping fulfill

the services that they offer.

598

And then, you know, they, they're gonna

have their assistant, their executive

599

assistant, that type of person.

600

And they may have somebody like a

social media person, but they don't

601

have somebody who can come in.

602

And have a high level, you know,

understanding of marketing in a cohesive

603

way that can help put together things that

they may understand in fragmented bits.

604

So I can put together your, your

podcasting with your SEO content

605

plan and you know, social, social

media with your email marketing and.

606

Put all those things together into a very

streamlined program and organize all of

607

your different offers into a streamlined.

608

Value ladder.

609

And so that's my expertise.

610

That's what I've been doing for years.

611

And so offering a done for you

is always going to sell easier

612

and in a quicker way you can more

quickly and easily go to market.

613

With a done for you service that you're

doing for people rather than DIY do

614

trying to sell a course, whereas DIY

they, them doing it themselves through

615

your course or something like that.

616

So if you're just getting going, just

know that if you want to, if you have

617

skills to be a virtual assistant or just

taking some training or certification

618

to be a virtual assistant or you wanna

be a content writer, like what I do,

619

a copywriter or something like that.

620

A social media manager,

bookkeeper, or different.

621

Whatever your skillset is doing it

for people, you can pretty much.

622

Pretty easily get booked up with that

if with, with a little focused effort.

623

Tony Comm 2: Hey, I hope

you're enjoying the show.

624

We'll get right back to the

discussion, but I do want to talk

625

high level with you real quick.

626

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691

Yeah.

692

That though, we were having a conversation

one time and we were talking about, we had

693

just had, I don't know, one of our kids

and I was like, you know, I have a lot

694

of books here about how to declutter, how

to organize, how to clean and all that.

695

And I was like, I'm not

reading any of 'em right now.

696

We just need to hire,

you know this service.

697

That's right.

698

Yeah.

699

Right.

700

And I was like, okay.

701

I am so thankful.

702

When there's three people come and

in two hours clean this entire, it's

703

like six hours worth of manpower.

704

That's right.

705

And it, it is better than what I can do.

706

Yeah.

707

And I, I took a nap, you know?

708

That's right.

709

I like go do stuff.

710

I'm like, I'm gonna use this time.

711

That's right.

712

And so sometimes, you know, I love

reading and learning and growing and

713

all that kind of stuff, but I realized

that whenever I'm trying to learn

714

something and implement it myself,

that's one thing and that's a service.

715

I wanna buy that book, buy that course.

716

But I, when I'm in another moment

where I just need it done for me, same

717

thing that happened with laundry too.

718

I was like, oh my goodness.

719

Well, laundry looks better.

720

It's folded better.

721

Everything's better, smells

better, smells better.

722

I'm like, you know, I

don't even need to be here.

723

That's right.

724

That's right.

725

And so doing it for somebody and

just taking that weight off Yeah.

726

That you're, if you get into

a room with people with.

727

Of some kind.

728

You can just get booked up.

729

That's right.

730

Just find where you wanna

play in the economy.

731

That's right.

732

So yeah.

733

So the next the number three.

734

Yeah.

735

Next opportunity is the product

economy, and that would include

736

physical products or digital products.

737

And so some people like to sell.

738

You know, digital planners downloads, you

know, printables, all that kind of stuff.

739

And a lot of homeschool families will

just get to where they're sharing things

740

that they've created for their own family.

741

So once you get in here for a few

years, you start creating systems

742

that you can help other families with.

743

And so we also have people that are like

micro school owners and things, so they're

744

creating co-ops, they're creating schools,

they're creating, you know, just tutoring

745

and, you know, opportunities like that.

746

And so.

747

The same thing can cross over

into the product economy.

748

You may not be creating a service

or you may not be teaching, but you

749

may just have a product that can be

downloaded and so as a product or in a,

750

you know, like a, a learning box that

you can sell as a e-commerce product,

751

you know, there's people that do that.

752

So there's a lot of different ways you

can take it, but it's basically you wanna

753

find out which category you want to be in.

754

Do you want to teach it?

755

Do you want to be the service

or do you wanna package it?

756

In a leverageable way

in a product, you know?

757

Yeah.

758

And those are like the three, like

top ways that people are making money.

759

Yeah.

760

And so now with products as, as we know,

you're talking about like e-commerce

761

and that type of thing e-commerce or

whether you're trying to get your products

762

sold into in a big box retailer store.

763

You know they are cash hungry endeavors.

764

Mm-hmm.

765

Right.

766

Yeah.

767

That's why if you do an offline

product, like one that's gonna

768

be shipped, you're gonna have to

have that financial investment

769

that's gonna take more research.

770

Investment, just a lot more investment.

771

That's right.

772

You have to consider cost of goods.

773

You have to consider shipping costs.

774

And you're gonna be pressed up against

prices that you can charge out in

775

the marketplace for your, for your

product, and particularly if you

776

get into more competitive niches.

777

Mm-hmm.

778

And so when you talk about

products of the three.

779

Products are probably the riskiest

just because of the, the, the

780

margins, the the, for one, the upfront

capital that you are going to have

781

to invest to get your product going.

782

And even if you find, you know, a white

label company that can, you know get

783

your product to you in small quantities.

784

Well, if you're getting small quantities

on whatever product you're trying

785

to sell, oftentimes you're gonna be

paying more per unit in that situation.

786

Yes.

787

See, your margins are

gonna be way tighter.

788

That's right.

789

That's right.

790

And then you're, you're, you're

still trying to, you're gonna

791

have to go and sell that product

and Yeah, there's Amazon there.

792

Yeah, there's Facebook marketplace there.

793

But you have to consider the competition

and what price and what price per unit.

794

Your competition is selling at, and you

have to factor, like I said, shipping,

795

warehousing costs and packaging costs

and other costs that go into product

796

sales that make it rather challenging.

797

And sometimes those challenges don't,

don't readily like to show their

798

faces on the, on the front end.

799

They you sometimes will

see those on the back.

800

You, you all the time.

801

All the time.

802

In every situation.

803

You'll see them on the back end, but they

sometimes don't like to show themselves.

804

On the front end.

805

Yeah.

806

I, I think for sure if you're gonna

get into the product economy, you

807

wanna try to, as much as possible,

keep it when it's just digital.

808

That's right.

809

It especially being a home.

810

'cause you already have

enough to think about.

811

Mm-hmm.

812

You know, if you're, you know,

not homeschooling, you got time,

813

you don't have anything else

going on, that's one thing.

814

But we're talking to homeschool families.

815

Yeah.

816

You may not wanna make that.

817

The thing that you focus on

unless you count the cost.

818

Mm-hmm.

819

And so, I mean, we've been in all of

these different areas and they all

820

have their benefits and opportunities.

821

I mean, opportunities arise

in lots of different ways.

822

Ways think about products

is that products sell.

823

You don't really have to have

like a big name brand yourself.

824

It's not personality driven.

825

And that's what we loved about it,

but we've experienced the upside of

826

that, being able to sell pretty easily.

827

Products.

828

But then we've also experienced

the, the tough spots.

829

In in, yeah.

830

Like for an example, squeeze by margins.

831

Yeah.

832

Well, like whenever we were selling a

product and it was coming from overseas,

833

and then remember that time at the,

the airport got shut down mm-hmm.

834

In the country.

835

Yeah.

836

And it was like, well, your products

are gonna, you're getting sales, but

837

your products are gonna be shipping now.

838

In nine weeks in the airport.

839

Oh, nine weeks.

840

Nine weeks.

841

Yeah.

842

Absolutely.

843

Yeah.

844

No.

845

So you know, that's what I'm saying.

846

We have a lot of experience in

these different things, but lots

847

of opportunities and that's why

it's important for everybody to.

848

Evaluate their opportunity, evaluate

what they're willing to, to focus on

849

what they're willing to do, and then,

you know, take it one step at a time.

850

There, there's, there the, the

opportunities actually stack on

851

top of each other and opportunities

change with something that could

852

be an opportunity right now for

the next five years could change.

853

And that's why you have to

use these business skills of

854

like pivoting and constantly.

855

You know, planning and just being vigilant

about, you know, staying focused on the

856

goal, which is the ultimate focus is being

at home with your child, being able to

857

be as low stress as possible so that you

can be a positive, happy parent while

858

they're getting this great education

and you're enjoying a wonderful life.

859

So, all these things, you know, being an

entrepreneur, there are all these things

860

that come with the territory in one way

or the other, whether you're homeschooling

861

or not, and it can all lead to.

862

A successful homeschool experience.

863

That's right.

864

That's right.

865

And so we hope that that was

insightful and encouraging to you.

866

We hope that you are inspired

to pursue the business idea that

867

has been in the back of your head

that you've been thinking about

868

at night or throughout the day.

869

And we just wanna encourage

you that yes, you can do it.

870

And even if it's product sales or, or

teaching economy, whether it's in the

871

product economy, the teaching economy,

or the service economy, you can do it.

872

You have to use the, the skills that

you've been using in homeschooling here

873

as you plan in your business, as you

research vendors, and research all the

874

things that you need to research and

plan it and get going and execute on it.

875

All of those skills in

homeschooling are here for you

876

to use to build your business.

877

Yeah, and I'm so excited because

in some coming episodes we're gonna

878

have stories from some of our clients

sharing how they're doing it, and

879

then we just have other examples of.

880

People who are just so we can go deep

into all these different areas and just

881

some more of the stories that we've

had because there's just so many ways

882

and I'm so excited for the parents.

883

And so I just want you guys to remember

that your homeschooling journey isn't

884

just about educating your kids, it's

also creating your business expertise.

885

And we're here for you on this show.

886

Hope that you enjoyed this show.

887

See you in the next episode.

888

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